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Here's a real nice article by Chris Wilson and Paul Kinlan regarding the
practicalities of using TouchEvents and MouseEvents:
<http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/touchandmouse/>
This article also mentions how PointerEvents' "unified event handling
can make this easier in many scenarios", although the current reality
PointerEvents still has relatively narrow deployment.
-AB